Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced mind that sees things clearly without reaction.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

When I run from suffering, it follows me. When I face suffering with equanimity, it runs from me.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.